Various notes on installing dovecot on FreeNAS 11. I understand this has no dovecot security applied. This is a tutorial for a LAN lab environment.

1. 1. If the FreeNAS is a VM, make sure the virtual network adapter permits permiscuous mode. This allows jails to network.
   2. Create dataset.
   3. Adjust Jails Setting, disable DHCP
   4. Create a jail with an IP address and allow.raw_sockets=true. This allows ping. Make sure that VIMAGE is unselected.
   5. Add storage to jail. Both /usr/ports and /mnt/pool/jails/foo.
   6. Install vim:
      1. jls
      2. sudo jexec foo sh
      3. # cd /usr/ports/editors/vim
      4. make install
   7. Update pkg metadata for jail
      1. # pkg update
   8. Install screen, dovecot from package
      1. # pkg install dovecot
      2. # pkg install screen
   9. Edit dovecot stuff

   10. Message from dovecot-2.2.33.2_2:
       ---------------------------------------------------------------------
       You must create the configuration files yourself. Copy them over
       to /usr/local/etc/dovecot and edit them as desired:
       
       cp -R /usr/local/etc/dovecot/example-config/* \
       /usr/local/etc/dovecot
       
       The default configuration includes IMAP and POP3 services, will
       authenticate users agains the system's passwd file, and will use
       the default /var/mail/$USER mbox files.
       
       Next, enable dovecot in /etc/rc.conf:
       dovecot_enable="YES"
       ---------------------------------------------------------------------
       To avoid a risk of mailbox corruption, do not enable the
       security.bsd.see_other_uids or .see_other_guids sysctls if Dovecot
       is storing mail for multiple concurrent users (PR 218392).
       ---------------------------------------------------------------------
       If you want to be able to search within attachments using the
       decode2text plugin, you'll need to install textproc/catdoc, and
       one of graphics/xpdf or graphics/poppler-utils.
       ---------------------------------------------------------------------

   11. We’ll skip the imap search features for now
   12. Let’s create a user inside this jail
       1. adduser, nologin, use a password
   13. Verify /var/mail/kathy exists
   14. Check in on QuickConfiguration
   15. in /usr/local/etc/dovecot…
       1. should be using conf.d/auth-system
       2. conf.d/10-auth: disable_plaintext = no
   16. /etc/pam.d
       1. create dovecot:

       2. auth    required        pam_unix.so
          account required        pam_unix.so

   17. conf.d/10-mail.conf : mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
   18. 10-master.conf: comment out pop3
   19. 10-ssl.conf : ssl=no
   20. in ../dovecot.conf: remove ‘::’ as interface to listen on
   21. # service dovecot restart
   22. Now attempt to hit it with thunderbird, use configs like this:

Next is Outlook

Follow these directions on adding a IMAP account to Outlook.

If it’s really old, microsoft suggests this article.